Word: norah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Norah Lofts is a pretty girl from Norfolk, England. In Colin Lowrie (Knopf, $2.50), she puts herself into the person of a handsome man from Crosslochie, Scotland, sets out with him to escape the Jacobite disorders of 1745, falls into slavery in the West Indies, escapes again to become a planter in Virginia, there lures a nun from a convent and is wooed by an aggressive woman. All this she does with spirit, conviction and excitement...
REQUIEM FOR IDOLS-Norah Lofts- Knopf...
Inconsequential performance below the level of Norah Lofts's best work; the story of an English girl who makes a fortune writing popular songs, buys the old family house, gets her sisters home for a sentimental reunion, finds them all drifting their own ways as distant as ever...
...horror of being either priggish or sentimental. They call me sentimental in my books, but I'm not really." Says Clive: "Me! Oh, I'm just a rather affectionate sort of ass." Author Deeping can be alarmingly severe with people he doesn't like, such as Norah, Rosamund's older sister: "Sallow and strenuous and masterful, given to sudden splurges of coarse laughter, and concealing beneath her thick white skin surges of strongly scented sex." But wistfulness predominates: "How few books were utterly inevitable, perhaps half a score in the course of a century. This business...
...these the laws which Homer gave? Figures cut from a fashion magazine pasted on canvas, geometric background: "Street In Montevidco", Norah Borges... By Lurcat, reinder horns growing out of earth tall as trees; a leaf large as a mountain, "Paysage Romantique"... One steer's head, one girl's head, a railroad track, one prairie, in oil and framed, "Paysage Andalou," by Jose Moreno Villa... And it was with profound regret that the Vagabond saw his friend's portrait, Edwin Arlington Robinson, taken down and replaced with a portrait which resembles the Vagabond's hag-in all respect dear women...